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The 2017 Minor League Draft will start Tuesday, March 28nd at 8:00am
While the draft is running, you are NOT permitted to pick up as a free agent any player who could be drafted in the minor league draft.
Draft order is reverse of major league draft, but any expansion teams pick first.
You have 18 hours to make your pick.
Please post your pick in large font, bolded font, colored font, anything that will make your pick stand out from the conversations.

The draft is 3/27 at 8:15pm.
This means that trading season is open. Keepers are due 3/25 by 9pm, so I can input them on Sunday 3/26 before the draft.
If you haven't posted your keepers either here or in the unofficial thread, you will get no keepers.
Have at it.

It took a lot of work, and I consulted with several people here (including the commissioners) but attached here is a copy of what I hope will become our League Constitution. It incorporates all our rules and procedures, and I hope I didn't leave anything out.
If you can think of anything that I got wrong, or left out, please post it in this thread.
I'd like to pass this now, rather than during the off-season, so hopefully all the owners will get a chance to look at it.
According to...

This is the formula for the schedule for a 20 team, 4 division league in which each team plays division opponents twice and all other teams once.
First, teams need to be grouped by division and numbered, 1 through 5 in each division and 1 through 20 for the entire league. Other than that it's not essential that you put them in any particular order, but listing them by the order of last year's finish helps assure that teams won't end up playing each other in the same weeks each year....

New teams, let's talk expansion draft here. Keepers are due 3/13. Once they're in, we can draft your keepers from the leftovers. What's a good date for all? This will be done here in the forum, or we can do it on WhatsApp or iMessage or whatever.

It's time to start thinking about our draft date.
I've simply updated Big_E's spreadsheet from last year to reflect's this year's dates and EARLY opening day: March 29, which is a Thursday.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g0dJ_F9lDCw8gdKXx_xJ3YI57AWNjwyYvZMBDR6yRc0/edit#gid=0
Ideally we'd like to get the mL draft done before opening day folks, and that usually takes a few days at least, so let's try and leave some gap between the ML draft and opening day.

First order: who wants to be commish?
Second: we need owners to return and be paid up so we can start off-season trading. Then we need a keeper deadline so we can process keepers and have everyone else available for the draft. Since the earliest draft date option we have is 3/17 (and I have an insane week leading up to that day), I say keeper deadline is
March 13, 2018
That will give the commish 3-ish days to process keepers and correct errors
That means we need a decent period for...

Check this thread and forum regularly, as information may be added or updated!
If you weren't a member last year and you're looking to sign up THIS ISN'T THE THREAD! There will be a thread shortly for prospective owners and you will need to sign up on that thread to be considered!
Okay, now that that's out of the way, it's time to shake the rust off and start getting the wheels turning for the upcoming 2009 NYYFans Fantasy Baseball League! As you all know, last season the Bad...

Since we've lost 3 managers this year, this is a great time to get some new people in to the league. If you're interested in the league, say so here. It's a very fun, H2H points weekly league, with 6 keepers and 6 minor league spots. If done right, it's a tremendous amount of fun with a great commish and some very active managers. The teams to be taken over are also pretty solid teams with great keepers.
The list so far:
TrueYankee01
berriYankee
miko638 (Miko the American)...

Flanders has proposed that we eliminate the snake draft, to increase the incentive for teams to finish strong. Under his proposal, the team picking first would also be the first in each round.
We have a second, so we need a vote. Vote your conscience.

I’m not keeping all off these guys would like to get one elite minor or a better keeper for multiple keepers.
Jose Berrios, last year 17, J. A. Happ last year 18, Steven Matz last year rd 22,
Dan Straily last year rd 21.
Clint Frazier last year in minors,
Also available are minor leaguers Brendan Rodgers, Willy Adames, Christian Arroyo, J. P. Crawford, Reynaldo López.